Common Core State Standards:
Content Area: Algebra
Grade Level:High School
Domain: Creating Equations
Cluster:Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
Standards(s): 1. Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•Linear equations are common and relevant in real life situations.
•You can create equations in one variable, and inequalities, and use them to solve problems.
•Using PMDAS (Parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction) and other order of operations skills are essential to solving problems.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How can linear equations be useful in real life?
•How do you solve linear and inequality problems?
•Why are using order of operations essential for successfully solving equations?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•Demonstrate how to solve linear and inequality problems.
•Compare answers and collaborate to find the correct answers.
•Use linear equations in real life situations.
•Recognize that linear equations are a simple way to figure out real life problems.
• Critique their order of operation skills to eliminate common mistakes.
•Be open to suggestions from their peers, to further their own understandings.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: Algebra
Grade Level:High School
Domain: Creating Equations
Cluster:Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
Standards(s): 1. Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems.
What understandings are desired?
•You can create equations in one variable, and inequalities, and use them to solve problems.
•Using PMDAS (Parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction) and other order of operations skills are essential to solving problems.
What essential questions will be considered?
•How do you solve linear and inequality problems?
•Why are using order of operations essential for successfully solving equations?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•Terminology: Properties, Identities, Solution, Slope.
•Formulas: Area, y=mx+b, distributive, associative, commutative.
•Compare answers and collaborate to find the correct answers.
•Use linear equations in real life situations.
•Recognize that linear equations are a simple way to figure out real life problems.
• Critique their order of operation skills to eliminate common mistakes.
•Be open to suggestions from their peers, to further their own understandings.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.